Labor & Employment Law

Labor & Employment Law

Each year, employment law becomes more complex, and effectively navigating the employment law minefield becomes more challenging. For forty years, Gibbs Giden has provided practical and cost effective advice to its corporate clients to meet these challenges. Our labor and employment attorneys have significant trial experience and are adept at crafting aggressive, efficient strategies that are individually tailored to meet the needs of your business.

Advice and Counseling

Gibbs Giden emphasizes preventative counseling, training, and education. Each of our lawyers works closely with clients to proactively address and advise on personnel issues before they develop into costly litigation. Our employment attorneys are skilled in ensuring compliance with the myriad rules and regulations promulgated by state and federal agencies covering the entire employee life-cycle: from recruitment and hiring, to leave requests and employee discipline, to termination.

We also routinely assist our clients in preparing employee handbooks, personnel policies, and employment procedures that manage risk, ensure compliance, and foster positive employee relations. We also advise clients on development and implementation of alternative dispute resolution procedures.

Our employment attorneys also have a wealth of experience in defending employers in wage and hour disputes, including cases alleging unpaid overtime, employee misclassification, failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and unpaid commissions, whether brought by a single plaintiff or as a class action lawsuit.

Our employment attorneys have extensive experience defending employee claims before state and federal courts, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Department of Industrial Relations, Department of Labor, and other federal, state, and local government administrative agencies.

Prevailing Wage and Traditional Labor

As part of a firm that is nationally recognized for its construction practice, our attorneys have deep experience advising builders, owners, contractors, and subcontractors on how to comply with prevailing wage requirements on public works projects. And when there has already been a misstep, our attorneys are skilled in defending clients threatened with civil penalty assessments.

Our team also has broad experience negotiating, advising on, and implementing project labor agreements for both our public and private entity clients. Our attorneys have served as outside counsel in negotiating project labor agreements on behalf of owners, public entities, and contractors, including for the construction of a multimillion dollar university expansion project, an electrical substation, and a prison.

Trade Secret & Unfair Competition Litigation

Our lawyers have decades of experience in drafting non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality clauses, as well as defending lawsuits to enforce such agreements. We also have experience obtaining restraining orders and injunctions seeking to protect trade secrets, and have defeated requests for the same on behalf of our corporate clients and their employees.

To learn more about our labor and employment practice, please call our Los Angeles office at 310-552-3400, our Irvine office at 949-287-8044, or our Las Vegas office at 702-836-9800, or contact us online. We look forward to assisting you.

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